Diamond certification: How to ensure a diamond’s quality and avoid to pay an overvalued price.

With every BAUNAT purchase of an individual diamond starting from 0.30ct and higher, you will receive a certificate of authenticity. This is a diamond grading report that summarizes a diamond's verifiable information (such as colour grade, clarity grade, cut grade and carat weight) and describes precisely its characteristics that prove the identity and the value of your diamond.

BAUNAT deliberately chooses never to offer inferior qualities. And this in a highly transparent and objective manner. That’s the reason why BAUNAT only works together with the most renowned certificates of the diamond industry worldwide: GIA, HRD & IGI. A certificate from one of these three reputable and well-known laboratories can be considered objective, independent, transparent, accurate and trustworthy. Because every diamond is graded by multiple educated and experienced graders to ensure the accuracy of each grading process. Besides that, each diamond certificate has an unique number which makes your diamond traceable and which you can use to verify its authenticity on the certifying laboratory’s website.
 

This way BAUNAT:

• Guarantees their clients transparently and objectively that all diamonds purchased with BAUNAT are genuine, 100% natural and the promised quality.
• Guarantees their clients excellent prices which are worth the promised quality. An assurance that the diamond is genuinely worth what the client is paying for it.
• Protects their client’s investment as it protects against the risk that at future resale (and at any possible recertification by GIA, HRD or IGI) the diamond (jewel) is of inferior quality (and value). In addition, it is also general known that a diamond with certificate of GIA, HRD & IGI has a higher resell value when compared to uncertified diamonds or diamonds with (in the diamond market worthless) self-written certificates or certificates by less reputable labs.

Any other way of certifying, different from explained above, is deceiving. Unfortunately in 2022 “other ways” are still common practice. We have been informed by our clients that there are still jewellers in business who are intentionally marking up the grades of their diamonds (via self-written certificates) resulting in their clients paying a significantly higher price for a lower grade diamond. As an example they pay for a G VS diamond but in reality receive a diamond which would be certified by e.g. GIA as a H SI diamond (or even lower). This way the client will have the impression they are buying a bargain but this is in reality unfortunately pure deception. BAUNAT therefore dissociates itself explicitly from practices such as self-written diamond certificates and inferior quality certificates by less reputable labs.

Our conclusion is therefore simple: self-written diamond certificates or certificates which do not come from independent and renowned lab are unreliable. No established & trustworthy jewellery brand will do this. Neither does BAUNAT.

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